Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical foundation for analysis of the decision to secede -- Disintegration and the "secession crisis" -- The four necessary elements of a secession crisis -- A note on the moral justification underpinning secession -- The framework -- A note on the cost/benefit approach -- A note on the units of analysis -- II The costs and benefits -- 3 The benefits of membership -- Security benefits -- Czech desires for a Bohemian Kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire -- The hasty creation of Yugoslavia -- Economic benefits -- Quebec: economic ties that bind -- The abandoned Soviet Central Asian republics -- Social benefits -- The Romansch -- The Karen -- The Slovaks and the creation of Czechoslovakia -- 4 The costs of secession -- State opposition -- The Nagas: the precedent for Indian policy -- The Kurds: repression on three fronts -- International hostility -- Self-determination -- Territorial integrity -- Explicit condemnation of secession -- 5 The costs of membership -- Mortal threats to the distinct community -- Deportation and famine: Soviet mistreatment of its minorities, 1930-1945 -- Turkish mistreatment of its Armenian community, 1915-1917 -- Cultural threats to the distinct community -- ''The Last Huron syndrome'' -- Forcible cultural assimilation: the Kurds as "mountain Turks" -- 6 The benefits of secession -- Elite interests -- Separatist agitation in Nigeria -- The principle of national self-determination -- The origins of the principle -- The nature of the benefits -- The controversy surrounding the principle -- III The dynamic of secession -- 7 "Last resorts": a rise in the costs of membership -- Mortal threats to the distinct community -- The republic of Biafra -- The Bengali secession.

Cultural threats to the distinct community -- The Southern Sudanese: religious persecution -- 8 "Opportune moments": a reduction in the costs of secession -- Collapse of the central government -- Russia, 1917-1922: a deluge of secession crises -- External support -- India: midwife to the birth of Bangladesh -- Turkey's creation: the Turkish republic of northern Cyprus -- 9 A reduction in the benefits of membership -- State policies -- The Norwegian secession -- "Mature anarchy" and economic integration: developments in the international system -- Catalan separatism -- Quebecois separatism -- Security requirements -- Economic integration -- 10 A rise in the benefits of secession -- Elite interests revisited -- The principle of national self-determination revisited -- "Quasi-statehood" -- Political infrastructure -- Economic infrastructure -- 11 Conclusion -- Main conclusions -- Implications for the concept of sovereignty -- The prevention and resolution of secession crises -- Future trends in secession -- Bibliography -- THEORY -- LAW -- CASES -- Belgium - Flanders/Walloonia -- Bengalis - Pakistan -- Biafra - Nigeria -- Cyprus -- Czechoslovakia -- Eritrea - Ethiopia -- India -- Nagas -- Karen - Burma -- Katanga - Congo -- Kurds - Turkey/Iraq/Iran -- Norway - Sweden -- Quebec - Canada -- Soviet Union -- The Baltic -- Soviet Central Asia -- Transcaucasus -- Ukraine -- Spain - Catalonia/the Basque lands -- Sudan -- Switzerland -- Tamils - Sri Lanka -- United Kingdom - Scotland/Wales -- Yugoslavia - Slovenia/Croatia -- OTHER CASES -- American South, Saharawis, Tibet -- Index.